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... scenarios considered
• The risks can be reduced to present day levels
using a broad portfolio of responses
• There are difficult decisions to be taken:
– Invest more in sustainable approaches
– Adapt to increased flooding
...

... The IPCC came out with its Fifth Assessment Report on “Impacts, Adaptation, and
Vulnerability” this week. The co-chair of the IPCC working group, Chris Field, said: “With
high levels of warming that result from continued growth in greenhouse gas emissions, risks will
be challenging to manage, and ev ...

... dangerous impacts on ecosystems and society. We expect a meaningful international agreement on
GHG mitigation at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015. This will provide
a framework in which companies like ABB can better understand how they can contribute to solving
this global ...

... − Plans to invest $8 billion over 10 years
− Reduce emissions by 24 million tonnes by 2015
• Formed a new Biofuels business in June 2006
− Global responsibility for biofuels activities
− Established the Energy Biosciences Institute with plans to invest $500
million over the next ten years to provide ...

... recognition of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and its
conclusion that global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) need to peak in the
next 10–15 years and be reduced to very low levels, well below half of levels in 2000
by the middle of the twenty-first century.
We are ...

... global warming was real and urged that something be done about it.
• The Panel's findings spurred governments to create the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. It was ready for signature at the 1992 UN Conference
on Environment and Development -- the "Earth Summit" -- in Rio de Ja ...

... calculate the carbon emissions from flights, land transport, household and office
energy and general consumption. The money received from donors is used to support
community-based tree planting, cook-stove and solar projects in the developing world.
...

... weather events, resulting from global warming. It is expected that the societies currently
experiencing existing social, economic and climatic stresses will be both worst affected and
least able to adapt. These will include many in the developing world, low-lying islands and
coastal regions, and the ...

... • The provision of a long-term, stable and
reliable regulatory environment to encourage
investments, support plans to reduce CO2
emissions further, and adapt to climate change.
• A reliable monitoring, reporting and verification
system to follow up on nations’ contributions.
...

... next few years and thereafter drastically and progressively reduce them
to near zero by 2050. Some form of international capping system is
required.
More than 90% of existing fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground.
Massive investment in energy conservation and renewables is needed.
Generating ...

... Global Climate Change– Nobody’s Fault?
Or Everyone’s Fault?
• According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC):
• Anthropogenic (HUMAN CAUSED) greenhouse gas
emissions, driven largely by economic and population
growth, and are now higher than ever. Their effects, together
with thos ...

... • Space heating is largest energy user
• ‘Integrated building design’ reduces energy
use by 40% on average
• Use of energy efficient appliances/ lighting
reduces energy use by 40% on average
• ‘Aggressive implementation’ can lead to
major GHG reductions and be cost-saving
...

... industrialized countries actually declined (by 5.6 per cent) -- but
that reflected unusual circumstances. Emissions of Eastern Europe
and the former Soviet Union fell by 37 per cent. That more than
compensated for an 8.2 per cent increase in emissions among
developed countries elsewhere. The real wo ...

Business action on climate change

Business action on climate change includes a range of activities relating to global warming, and to influencing political decisions on global-warming-related regulation, such as the Kyoto Protocol. Major multinationals have played and to some extent continue to play a significant role in the politics of global warming, especially in the United States, through lobbying of government and funding of global warming skeptics. Business also plays a key role in the mitigation of global warming, through decisions to invest in researching and implementing new energy technologies and energy efficiency measures. (See also individual and political action on climate change.)